Chapter 14

Welcome to my world that's painted with sadness
There's no light of sun, no you can't hear any sound
at all.
Here I am waiting for you my love
Why? You are so cruel to leave your Raven Alone.

The song is call puppet Mary's theme from the game Ib. I changed the lyrics from that of a n English dub to fit this chapter and even without that I'm pretty sure I heard them wrong. you ever get the chance look up the song by Yari. It's good. I like it anyhow, and it's also what inspired me to write this chapter. ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!

Years had gone by since Raven blu had been sent away from the plan to another by Jason blood, or Etrigan the ancient demon. Since then Klarion had been driven insane trying to find his Raven. Finally after so long of desperately trying to locate Raven. He found her.

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"Who are you stranger? With such a pretty rose in your hand?" Raven's voice called out to a blue faced figure with a purple colored rose. Raven sat in a field of yellow roses, this stranger often visited her in this world. Before he came it was nothing but barren wasteland filled with nothing but monsters waiting to find and devour her very being. For a long time she was fearful of this world of horrors.

But then this figure, this strange blue skinned man with dark hair and kind smile found her. He had turned the world of her nightmares into a world of beauty, and life. Raven smiled innocently at this man that now stood before her with a purple colored rose. He knelt before her and smiled.

"For you dear Raven," he said sweetly, "Our time has been cut short I am afraid. Perhaps we shall meet again. In another world."

He placed the deep purple rose in Raven's lap and stood once again. Looking down at her with his coal black eyes. Raven began to cry.

"No, please….don't go!" She cried. She so desperately wanted someone to stay with her. She didn't want this magic that kept her world from crumbling into the nightmare she was once in. She didn't want to be alone in the dark anymore. She didn't want to die in this world alone.

"Goodbye, little Raven." The blue skinned man said, bowing to Raven as she sobbed and reached out for him. He smiled and soon his figure was gone, as well was the world he had made for her.

"NO!"

Raven laid in a crumbled heap on the cracked earth below her. She cried and shivered in fear. Fear of what the monster would do to her if they found her once again. She wished the man had taken her with him. Away from this world that she only knew. She wanted to leave. She wished ever so desperately to be set free from this horrible world in which she lived. She just wanted to go back into the world of roses again! Suddenly, a voice called out to her, a voice in all the darkness and silence.

"Raven!"

Raven sat up cautiously to see where the voice came from. However it was dark. So dark not even the brightest of light could pierce through it. She wondered if she had even heard the voice at all, or if she had simply imagined it. The voice called out to her again, this time behind a small light. It was a speck at first, but soon grew bigger, into that of a horned figure. Raven stared in fear.

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Klarion looked through the darkness until he found Raven. When he did the first thing she did was scream in fear of him. Klarion looked to Teekl who meowed. Klarion then knelt down next to Raven who tried to crawl away from him in a desperate attempted to run. He grabbed her by the hand and looked to her.

"Raven, it's me. Klarion, don't you remember me?" He asked softly. Raven cried and struggled to release herself from his grip. Her hands were black and red from dirt and possibly blood trying to claw her way out of this world or whatever else was chasing her. Her cheeks were also dirty, and soaked with tears. The clothing she was wearing years ago when Etrigan banished her, were ripped and her hair was messy and tangled.

"No. leave! Scared!" She screamed Klarion stared. After so many years of what he assumed was torture in this world, had Raven's mind shattered? The distant look in her eyes told him it was true. His Raven was still gone from him. Klarion bit his lip so hard that it began to bleed. Raven seemed to calm down from this because she stopped fighting and touched his face where blood came from his lip.

"Blood…." She said then looked to Klarion, her distant sapphire blue eyes meeting his coal black ones. "Pain…"

"I've got to do something." Klarion said, grabbing Raven by the arms and helping her stand. Her legs were wobbly, and she couldn't stand on her own. They were also filthy and covered with dried blood, and her fear were bare, "Come with me Raven. I'll save you from this place."

From the distance there was a loud growl, it made Raven scream with fear and cling to Klarion's torso. She began to cry again as she clung to him. Teekl mewed to Klarion warning him that if they stayed any longer he might not get that chance. So without waiting any longer he held Raven tightly to him and opened a portal and took Raven out of that place.

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Zatanna walked down the streets of Gotham, she had only recently gotten over the fact that Raven had been sent away. She was starting to make peace with that. However she had gone to the trouble of buying a headstone for Raven—since for all she really knew, Raven really was dead. Even if she wasn't the greatest person in the world she still deserved a memorial. She was in all actuality, Zatanna's friend.

"Zatanna…" Dick began, he had come with Zatanna for the past few years to pay his respects to the girl that was once Zatanna—his now girlfriend's—friend. Zatanna looked to him.

"I know how this looks, but for all I know Raven really is dead." She said, "The least I can do for her is this. She was being controlled by Klarion, she didn't deserve any of this."

"Right…" Dick said, "I know Z, but it's been years."

"I don't care." She said, "The only reason she got into this mess was because I became her friend."

Dick placed his hand on Zatanna's shoulder and gave her a reassuring squeeze.

"It's not your fault Zatanna, ok?" He asked, "You need to stop blaming yourself."

Zatanna nodded as the two walked down the streets to Gotham Cemetery, where Raven's mock burial sighting was placed. as they walked a thought came to Zatanna's mind.

"Dick, you don't think Klarion would ever go looking for her do you?" She asked. Dick shook his head.

"I doubt it, after she was sent away I'm pretty sure he'd given up on trying to keep her." He said, "I mean he's nothing but a spoiled brat, sorry Z, but I don't think even Klarion would go searching for her this long. Even if he did want her powers to himself."

"I…suppose you're right…" Zatanna said looking to the ground.

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When Raven opened her eyes again light filled them. She let out a squeal of surprise and shut them closed again. The light burned her eyes for a moment, she then realized she wasn't in that other world anymore. She opened her eyes once again to see that she was in a room, and was lying on something soft. She let out a soft groan as she moved only to find herself tangled up in something. It was white and it was wrapped around her waist. Raven let out a yelp as she tried to free herself from them.

As she struggled she began to wonder where she was? She didn't remember how she got here. Nor did she remember how she escaped that dark world. She let out a cry of fear, as the confusion and terror of whatever was entrapping her began to take over. She then fell off what she was previously lying on and hit the ground below, hard. She began to cry.

"Raven?" A voice called to her. Raven looked up to see the horned figure walk toward her from a door in the room. The memories of how she had gotten here flooding back. This creature, this…boy had freed her from the dark world and for that she was more than grateful.

The boy knelt down to her and began to tear away what was tangling her. He let out a sigh as he helped her to her feet.

"Honestly Raven," He said to her, "How'd you manage to get yourself into this mess?"

Raven stared at him with an innocent look. She still didn't seem to know who he was, or the fact that she even knew who she was. However she seemed to be happy to be back in this world, because she clung to him tightly. She mumbled something to him he couldn't quite understand, she was still a bit incoherent using smaller words and mostly babbles as ways to communicate.

"I've got to find a way to get your mind back." He said, Raven simply smiled at him and began to run her hands though his spiked hair. Suddenly a thought went through his mind,

"Then again it would be so much easier to just take your powers for myself." He said, "Then I could do away with you. And I'd be killing two birds with one stone—as the humans say."

Teekl growled.

"Of course you do have a point Teekl. As easy as that would be I have put a lot of work into her." He then said, looking down at the broken minded woman.

Raven stared up at him, as if trying to figure out if she really should trust him. After all he had the horns of one of the monsters that haunted her in the last world. However he did save her, and she wanted nothing more than to show him how grateful she was. But she began to miss the mysterious man, the one who turned her world into a pretty one full of flowers and light. The one with the strange purple rose in his hand and blue complexion skin. She wondered, for a brief moment, what became of him and if he knew that this boy was coming to save her.

"There are no books that has a spell that can return her to her normal state of mind Klarion." Teekl mewed, "At least, none that you possess."

"No, that's true, and there is no potion with the same effects." Klarion said, just then there was a loud meowing noise outside the room followed by scratching. Teekl groaned.

"Oh great, he's back." He growled, as Cherie Curie pushed through the small crack in the door and padded up to the trio. Raven smiled and stooped to pet the white and black cat.

"Pretty…"

Cherie looked up at his former master with a forlorn look in his green eyes as Raven ran her fingers through his fur. He then looked to Klarion and meowed.

"Yes it's me you old hair ball," Cherie hissed to Teekl—since he was the only other person who could understand him, "Who the hell else would be here, and unlike you worthless louses. I may have something to go on as far as bringing my Raven dearest back."

"Is that so?" Teekl asked, Klarion scowled.

"What's going on?" he asked. Cherie sighed.

"I may know of a woman who might be able to help us. She is half demon, and may know some spells to repair the broken shards of Raven dearest's mind." He said, Teekl narrowed his eyes.

"You're tone of voice tells me there's something else to that." He mewed. Cherie nodded and purred at Raven scratched him behind the ears.

"Yes, though she is of demonic origins she fights on our opposing side." He said, "So coercing her to help our Raven, may be a bit on the difficult side. Though I'm sure if Klarion wants our Lovely Raven back, this will not be a difficult task."

"Well who are we looking for? And how do we find her?" Klarion asked, after Teekl translated everything Cherie had said. Cherie's tail twitched.

"Oh I do not think finding her will be a difficult mission, she shares a name with our Raven after all." He mewed softly.

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"AACHOO!" Raven sneezed, Starfire looked to her goth-like friend, cloaked in blue.

"Friend Raven, are you catching, the cold?" she asked floating to Raven who narrowed her eyes.

"I don't get sick, it's one of the reasons I meditate, so I don't get sick, or irritated." She growled as Starfire put her hand on Raven's forehead.

"Then is it perhaps, that someone distant is speaking of you?" She asked, Raven rolled her eyes.

"Who the hell would be talking about me?" She asked.

Oooh isn't that interesting? How could Raven of the Teen Titans know a spell to bring Raven Blu back to her senses? Guess we'll find out later wont we? I was actually hoping to encorperate the Two Ravens in 'Klarion get's a girl' but that story actually took a huge turn from that, and I'm actually proud of how that is. SEE YOU LATER ARMADILLOS—UNLESS I SEE YOU FIRST! HAHA! Review! Those who do will get a kiss from Klarion—or Cherie in human form.
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